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Posted 20 October 2005 - 07:11 PM

I think you might be able to install Windows on a Mac, but not Mac OS on a Windows machine:

...raises the possibility of new, affordable Apple computers that could boot both Mac OS X and Windows.

"Apple will not do anything to prevent it,"...If you're hoping to load Mac OS X on an existing Windows PC, though, you'll be disappointed. Apple has made it clear that the Mac OS will install only on Mac hardware.

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Posted 23 October 2005 - 12:18 PM

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Posted 23 October 2005 - 01:02 PM

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i've only seen multiple OS on macs

You can install Linux on either one, but I believe that Windows will only be able to be installed on Macs (although Microsoft may have something to say about it), while Tiger won't be able to be installed on non-Macs, according to Steve Jobs.

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Posted 25 October 2005 - 02:43 PM

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Dual booting has many benefits. You don't have to switch from room to room (or computer to computer if they're in the same room), you can learn how to use more than one OS without buying several PCs, and like It b0ngo said, you can just reboot and start the other OS to use it's applications instead of buying all them over again for the other OS.

Posted 26 October 2005 - 02:37 AM

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Posted 26 October 2005 - 03:04 PM

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I have a 5-button mouse, so I love using all the buttons for different things. XP made it a lot easier to get around without right-clicking, and puts many of the options previously availble only by right-clicking or digging through a ton of stuff right out in the open. It may be hard to get used to with only one button, but I'm sure you'll get used to it.

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Posted 28 October 2005 - 05:27 PM

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This is an interesting topic. I looked up the Xenix operating system on Wikipedia, this was an early Unix based predeccesor of Windows, and found that mac operating systems were Unix/Linux based, such as X-windows. At one type Bill Gates thought that the Unix based systems would win over the dos based systems, but squabbles over copyrights slowed their developement just enough to let the dos based OS's take over.

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Posted 29 October 2005 - 11:53 PM

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The way thiese Mac guys are able to run this XP or 2000 os is because they run it like a game ... in simplist form .... Then they can install stuff on it. From what i hear it is very unstable and doesn't get very much praise about it.